Seattle re passengers leaving airline counter after checking luggage

Document date 7 December 1971

Part 14pages 136–1383 pagesDB Cooper-3498–3500

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 14 pp. 136–138 (DB Cooper-3498–3500), Teletype, dated 7 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-778 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-14%3A136-138

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Date: 12/7/71

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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)

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TO : SAC, LOS ANGELES SAC, SAN FRANCISCO

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, SEVENTY ONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE NEW YORK TELETYPE, DECEMBER TWO, SEVENTY ONE, RE [REDACTED]

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FOR THE INFORMATION OF LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO, ON DECEMBER ONE, SEVENTY ONE, [REDACTED] PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, ADVISED BUREAU AGENTS OF AN INCIDENT OCCURRING AT LA GUARDIA IN THE SPRING OF SEVENTY ONE. [REDACTED] STATED THAT TWO WHITE MALE INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] APPEARED AT THE EASTERN AIRLINES TICKET OFFICE AT LA GUARDIA AND ATTEMPTED TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR FLIGHT TO MIAMI WITH FRAUDULENT CREDIT CARD. TICKET AGENT RECOGNIZED FRAUDULENT CREDIT CARD AND ATTEMPTED TO STALL THE TWO

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164-81-778

Approved: _______ Special Agent in Charge Sent 4th 4PM-M Per [initials]

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DB Cooper-3498

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SE 164-81 PAGE TWO

PASSENGERS WHO LEFT THE COUNTER ABRUPTLY, BUT WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY CHECKED THEIR LUGGAGE WHICH THEY LEFT BEHIND. THE LUGGAGE BECAME PROPERTY OF PORT AUTHORITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND UPON INSPECTION IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT ONE OR BOTH THESE INDIVI- DUALS WAS AN EXPERIENCED AND ACTIVE SPORTS PARACHUTIST. A PERSONAL LETTER LOCATED IN THE LUGGAGE INDICATES THIS INDIVIDUAL, WHO IS PROBABLY [REDACTED] MAY HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED AT ONE TIME. INCLUDED IN THE LUGGAGE WAS A

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b6 b7C

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DB Cooper-3499

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SE 164-81 PAGE THREE

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[REDACTED - b6/b7C]

[REDACTED - b6/b7C] ALSO INCLUDED IN THE LUGGAGE WAS A SPORTS PARACHUTIST'S LOG BOOK BEARING NO NAME.

LOS ANGELES, AT [REDACTED - b6/b7C] CALIFORNIA, ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP INFORMATION CONCERNING [REDACTED - b6/b7C] TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE COULD BE UNSUB IN THIS MATTER,

SAN FRANCISCO AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, REVIEW RECORDS OF U. S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING [REDACTED - b6/b7C] - P -

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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DB Cooper-3500 Approved: _______________ Sent _____________ M Per ______________ Special Agent in Charge

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-778